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I think so too -- but I think there is something to a physical relationship as well. And what you are asking after I would be more comfortable having ...

There had to be a topic somewhere that @"Hanover" and I agreed upon. :D Without knowing you in the flesh it's just hard to say. We all can edit our te...

I agree, more or less. I'm not so certain about Hume, but whatever. Presentation matters. Aesthetics are a part of theoretical concerns, explanations,...

I don't view this as troubling. For one it does seem there are people who do not feel this way. All the better for them. But for those of us who view ...

On philosophy: Philosophy pushes the boundaries of sense. With new philosophy new concepts or ways of thinking are explored. If it were always bound b...

Actually that does set off my thinking a bit -- thinking of reasoning as an art. Exactly like learning to make art -- Doesn't reasoning sort of work i...

I'm not sure what you intend with your quotes. I'm just noting that. I view reasoning as an activity that humans can do. So rather than looking at it ...

A quick summation of necessary conditions thus far: Emotional attachment or motivation (know-why) Shared beliefs or commitments to which appeals can b...

Heh. That strikes a chord with me. I've experienced the stony ground before, too. This kind of reminds me of the parable of the sower. That's a good p...

I think you have the better way of putting it. Good point with language-learning, something which is certainly prior to authoritarian structures. I th...

Glad to hear from you @"mcdoodle" I agree that the relation between the ancient and the modern is really interesting. And, as my thinking goes anyway,...

I might have a broader notion of theoretical reasoning here that I'm not making clear -- because everything you say here, from my perspective, is pure...

Although, hey! I did just identify a contradiction in my thinking. Generally I think of philosophy as thoroughly useless, but here I am saying that ph...

I want to preserve this notion of theoretical thought. It makes more sense of much of philosophy -- rather than casting Plato's theory of the Forms in...

Perhaps I should note that I don't think of reason as some cold set of rules of inference or Spock-like mentality, too. Reason is wholly motivated tow...

I just wouldn't call it truth. I'd say that we're aiming at proper action, rather than true actions. So there is what is true, and then there is what ...

Truth-as-consensus seems to miss what truth is. Just because a group of people come to an agreement that something is true that does not then mean tha...

The TLP almost reads like a lament to me. I agree with your reading in that it is a treatise on ethics, primarily, and logic secondarily -- there are ...

Some other condition: In order for an appeal to work it would seem that we would already have to consider the speaker as somehow someone worth listeni...

The slingshot argument, introduced to me on these forums (or the last?), persuaded me of the limitations of the correspondence theory of truth. I foun...

I think there's definitely similarity, but I think there's some important differences too. I'm sympathetic to the notion that truth is correspondence,...

Some remarks: I think that the question is really too broad to be fairly answered. I'm more than happy to hear input, of course, but I'm also partiall...

Oh, I don't know if it's better that way or whatever. After work I find it hard to concentrate, so it was nice to have it read to me. Plus the transla...

I can kind of see it, but there's a difference too. It's not quite a heap, but there are criteria in play. I think the Sorites paradox would apply onl...

How would you parse Tiff's example, in that case? OR do you mean just to restrict yourself to discussions of objective knowledge only?

I'd have to say that if that be the criteria for subjective and objective truths that you're using the words differently from the scenario with a pati...

You were talking about criteria for evaluating knowledge though, right? It seems to me, re-reading your OP, your saying that you can replace all talk ...

I think Tiff's response was good, too. What it gave was a very clear context of usage. I would say, however, that the context of usage for objective/s...

Well, for myself at least, I just began to think that the use of the terms added more confusion than clarity. But in not using them their importance s...

Well, thanks to this thread I listened to the Tao te Ching -- it was my first exposure to it. There was a reasonably decent reading on youtube, and th...

I had thought, for awhile, that it was preferable to reject the distinction between what is objective and subjective. Now I'm tentatively of the opini...

Because the question I offered is not asking, "Does the punishment prevent further injustice?" and "Is justice restored?", but rather "Does the person...

Power -- Bertrand Russell. It's written as a survey of types with the hopes of making a science of power. I don't think it succeeds, but it fits what ...

I suppose a direct response to your titular question is: It's not as tedious as discussing philosophy with definitions. Also, it keeps the discussion ...

That's a good analogy actually. By your terms I agree that morality is objective. The notion that I'm proposing is that every moral statement is false...

Would it really be for others? Maybe family and friends. But the same things that motivate people now -- desires for comfort, food, water, and so fort...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-transcendental-idealism Kantian scholarship at times feels like Biblical exegesis. I've been re-reading the fi...

Sure. But it's sensible to ask, then, how it is you know what you claim? Why is it that some people believe in the death penalty, and some do not, and...

There's a nice book by Ian Hacking titled The Social Construction of What?. I think it's great reading for anyone interested in the notion of social c...

Isn't that what makes it better than philosophy, in some respects? I think so.I think they're both important aspects of human activity. And actually w...

Asking the easy questions today? :D There's a funny thing about the question "What does that mean to you?" There's a couple of senses of "mean" that c...

I'm not exactly sure. I just know what I'd choose. First I'd be curious. What in the heck are you talking about? Sure, I want to see what that's all a...

Misery in the domain of the real! Well, I don't know if I'd call it misery. But I'd want real power and money, as opposed to dream power and money. An...

That's fair. I'll own up to the fact that love has been one of my philosophy topics for a bit. :D But there's wisdom to what you're saying here.

Sure. But I don't see what you think this entails. Yes, it's shown through deeds or acts. I'm not drawing the same implications you are. I don't see h...

But I do. They feel different. Just as I have a reason to distinguish between red and blue -- they look different -- so I have a reason to distinguish...

What? I'm totally confused as to what you're getting at. My best guess right now is you believe I was talking about someone else's relationship which ...

Yes. Though I'm a little hesitant to call something second nature, just because I'm always leery of essences in general, but maybe that won't be an is...

I'd say feelings are noticeably absent. Also, the kind of commitments , as well as specific commitments, in a transactional relationship differs from ...

Sure. But my bagel is not a "bagel", and when I eat it I'm not eating words. Love needs more than expressions of love -- it is also actions, commitmen...